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The term ‘social capital’ is a way of defining the intangible resources of community, shared values and trust upon which we draw in daily life. It ...

The Art and Craft of Political Theory provides a critical overview of the discipline’s core concepts and concerns and highlights its development of...

Although happiness is based upon individuals’ subjective perception of their own situation, understanding the concept of happiness is important for...

This handbook initiates fresh debates on poverty and its impact in a constantly changing Global South society. It studies the concept, theories, an...

Table of Contents Preface I. THE EUROPEAN ROOTS OF SOCIOLOGICAL THEORY: The Origins of Sociological Theory Theorizing after the Revolution Saint-Si...

This book explores the extent to which the COVID-19 pandemic is poised to be a permanent fixture in the modern world which in contemporary times wi...

Are human rights part of the problem or part of the solution in the current 'clash of civilizations'? Drawing on a hitherto neglected body of work ...

Caring for the Commons: Community Forest Management and Creation of Social Capital explores the interconnection between community management of for...

Discourse and Power: An Introduction to Critical Narratology: Who Narrates Whom? is both an introduction to discourse research and an application o...

Against the backdrop of an alarming rise in authoritarianism and the crisis of liberal democracy, few would consider extoling the virtues of politi...

As an exile in America during the War, Theodor Adorno grew acquainted with the fundamentals of empirical social research, something which would sha...

Reflecting emerging research and ongoing reassessments of social theory, The Wiley- Blackwell Companion to Major Social Theorists offers significan...

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expre...

Now thoroughly updated and revised, this new edition of the highly acclaimed dictionary provides an authoritative and accessible guide to modern id...

Unpopular Essays, [Paperback] Bertrand Russell

First published in 1923, The Prospects of Industrial Civilization is considered the most ambitious of Bertrand Russell's works on modern society. I...

Power by Bertrand Russell, 1138301434, 9781138301436, Routledge Classics

“…they see in poverty nothing but poverty, without seeing in it the revolutionary, subversive side, which will overthrow the old society.”The Pover...

Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of e...

In lively and unflinching prose, Eric Cazdyn and Imre Szeman argue that contemporary thought about the world is disabled by a fatal flaw: the inabi...

On Dialogue [Paperback] David Bohm